[Dump-users] Extended attributes on Linux

[Nick G. <Nic...@ce...>]

Greetings fellow Dump users,

I recently received a request to allow user extended attributes.  As I
try not to be the BOFH I said,"sounds reasonable, why not" :-)

File systems on the machine are now mounted like

/dev/sda2 on /opt type ext3 (rw,user_xattr)

And fstab entries are like:

/dev/sda1               /                       ext3            defaults
1 1
/dev/sda2               /opt                    ext3
defaults,user_xattr                     1 2
Etc
Etc

It later ocurred to me that I don't know how dump behaves with these
extended attributes.

Dump looks like this:

dump 0.4b37 (using libext2fs 1.32 of 09-Nov-2002)

And linux kernel looks like this:

Linux dufus 2.4.21-40.EL.cernsmp #1 SMP Fri Mar 17 00:53:42 CET 2006
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

The kernel is a slightly modified RHEL3 (see
https://www.scientificlinux.org/)

My question is: Will extended attributes be backed up by dump on the
/opt volume?

Any replies are, of course, appreciated.

Regards,

Nick Garfield
IT/CS Group
CERN
Geneva
Switzerland